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Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.

A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.

oy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes. Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut. Lev. xxii. 24. The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. Num. xxii. 25.…

One who, or that which, crushes. Crusher gauge, an instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal.

That crushes; overwhelming. "The blow must be quick and crushing." Macualay.

A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

To batter; to break in pieces. [Obs.] I like thine armor well; I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all. Shak.

A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide. G. Eliot.

A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.

A brush for cleaning the nails.

A rushing onward.

To rush out; to issue, or ru Garth.

A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositæ, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.

Nevada; -- a nickname.

A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.

Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush. Ant thrush. See Ant thrush, Breve, and Pitta. -- Babbling thrush, any one of numerous species of Asiatic timaline birds; -- c…

The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.]